Includes 40 parables translated from Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191).

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""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Paradox and the Unexpected ""; ""Sadness in Finding a Treasure""; ""The Clown on the Day of Judgment""; ""Chipping Away at the Mountain""; ""God in Transit""; ""The Correct Motivation""; ""The Talking Bird""; ""Compassion as Punishment""; ""That Each Occasion Be like the Very First""; ""The Evil Inclination""; ""Redefinitions ""; ""The Crown and the Container""; ""Beyond Request""; ""Sound without Words""; ""On the Language of Melody""; ""When Truth Confronts Limited Understanding""; ""When a House of Sticks Is Shattered""

""The Suffering of the Shekhinah""""Unconventional Ways to Serve""; ""On the Need for the Spontaneous""; ""The Miraculous within the Everyday""; ""Seeing a Woman's Beautiful Clothing""; ""Deepening the Implications of Divine Oneness ""; ""The Barriers to the Palace""; ""The King's Two Messengers""; ""On Evil as a Divine Instrument""; ""On Intruding Thoughts""; ""It Is God Who Awakens Our Minds""; ""Child and Parent""; ""The Ultimate Disloyalty""; ""Transforming Sadness from Within""; ""Echoes and Transformations of Older Motifs ""; ""The World Is Like a Wedding Feast: A Parable Tradition""

""The Exiled Prince and the Gem on the Ocean Floor: A Parable Tradition""""The Polemics of an Hour of History ""; ""Arms without Fire""; ""On the Inability to Hear the Melody""; ""A Holy Man's Dependence upon His Followers""; ""Parables by Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav""; ""To Break Down All the Doors and Locks""; ""Which Class Really Makes the Wheels Go Around?""; ""More Treasure Tales""; ""Where the True Treasure Is to Be Found""; ""Glossary of Terms and Personalities ""; ""Sources and Bibliography ""